As far as I can tell, this is UTF-8 encoded and contains the length – that is it’s not null-terminated. Ironically, this seems to be causing me grief in conversion. I’ve tried moving it using CString, but it routinely gives garbage or just crashes out.

I guess I need to convert this to an u8 slice and then use from_utf8_unchecked. But I am not sure how this works from a raw pointer.